Scott Adkins (Yuri Boyka) Answers Martial Arts Training Questions From Twitter | Tech Support

hi I'm Scott Adkins an actor and a martial artist and this is training support at tipsy like Jenga asks how do MMA fighters take kicks to the shin I stubbed mine and I'm TKO'd by the coffee table ha I know the feeling every time that I've been away and made a movie for a few months I come back and I start training again and it hurts heel kick in the Thai pads without your trousers on it takes a while to get used to it and also if you don't do it it feels like your shins to quickly become like butter again so Thai pants are what Thai boxers use mostly for kicks their long pants like this that you slip your whole forearm into it and they're great for hitting with round kicks and then for the body you can hold them against your body and so you punch them and you kick them but they're very tough material made out of leather it takes a while to get used to kicking those with a bare shin went when you're a beginner just kicking the the Thai pants will make your shins much harder but there are other ways to harden them up like rolling sticks and kneeling on beer bottles and all sorts of stuff like that but the truth is nothing can prepare you for how much it would hurt when you kick someone in the shin as hard as you can with your shin in a fight the adrenaline is going to stop you feeling it but you're gonna feel it the next day at alan rodriguez 9 asks question for martial artists should i ever let a potential attacker know that you are trained in martial arts in this country the UK it was said that if you were an expert in martial arts and you didn't warn the potential attacker that you're about to strike you can actually be in a lot of trouble in a UK course of law I'm not even sure if that still exists anymore but I do know this story of a black belt Taekwondo instructor from the UK who was in a pub and he was getting a bit of grief off someone and he said to the guy listen I must warn you that I'm a black belt in Taekwondo and then he got knocked out spark just after he gave in a warning so my advice to you is probably keep it a secret surprise is is all part of being a good fighter never start a fight but if you are sure if you are positive that there's no way out and you can't talk your way out of this situation and that it's gonna go down just keep it a secret and not the other guy out at RZA Wow that's the real RZA that's brilliant kick-ass Friday what movie do you think has the best fight scene ever great question RZA obviously I've seen a lot of martial arts films as I'm sure you have as well one of my favorite fights is from they live the John Carpenter film with Roddy Piper I love the extended fight scene that they have in the middle of the movie when Roddy Piper is trying to get Keith to put the the shades on and he doesn't want to put the shades on and it's a great fight because it's not about the choreography it's not about how well it's shot it's really about this battle of attrition where one guy is trying to get the other guys to do something and the fight just goes on and on and on and it doesn't stop and then you think it's gonna end and it keeps going and it keeps going and the way they perform it is brilliant and it's got those funny moments in there that is one of my favorite fight scenes it's hard to say that's my favorite fight scene but certainly that is one of my all-time favorite fights they live at get a grip Jim possibly stupid question for Jim Nast's when you twist in your tumbling do you have to spot something like you do in a turn you do have to spot not only in gymnastics but also in martial arts if I'm gonna throw a spinning kick before I throw the kick I need some ahead all around and spot my target that I see who or what I'm gonna kick before I kick it you don't be kicking blind and the same thing with gymnastics with like a straight back somersault with a twist you go up you get the height first wherever the head goes the body will follow - you twist your head you need to see the floor so that you understand where it is that you can land there one of the things you need in in gymnastics and also martial arts is spatial awareness you know one of the things you need to do is spot at Shelley 2:39 boxing or kickboxing question which stance has an advantage Orthodox or southpaw and isn't worth knowing both it's generally thought that a southpaw has the advantage over an orthodox fighter so an orthodox fighter is going to be someone who right handed lime a and you're gonna stand with your right hand back this is the power side maybe your right leg is the power side typically a left handed person so he's going to stand the other way in the power hand is going to be the left most people are right handed so if you take your average gym the majority of people that are training in that gym are going to be right-handed it stands to reason that the southpaw the left-handed guy is going to have more experience fighting a right-handed guy but to answer your question it's definitely worth understanding and knowing how to fight in both stances and to be able to throw strikes from the Orthodox position and a southpaw position and what I try to do as an orthodox fighter is our switch stance just before throwing a strike and if you're dealing with someone that's not very versed in that type of thing they have to readjust and in that split second maybe that's just enough time hits him with some strikes that he doesn't see coming because you change your stance and your camera from her from a different perspective at Nikoli G asks question for martial artists Crescent kicks straight leg or chamber for those of you who don't know a crescent kick is where I would bring up my knee you can either do an outside Crescent kick with the outside of the foot or you can do an inside Crescent kick with the inside of the foot it's called a Crescent because it moves either inwards or outwards you need to chamber the leg if you throw a straight leg for me that's going to be much slower than if you begin the movement with a bent knee what I like to do with the Crescent kick and with the hook kick is I like to chamber the knee and hold my foot in so that I can kick faster or swing through faster and then at the last minute I like to flick it out so it comes out very loose almost like a flicking motion it works perfectly with a hook kick but also I think for the Crescent kick you should bring it up with the knee bent and then flick out the outside of the foot so that you're you're hitting with much more torque and speed I would suggest that if you're gonna do a Crescent kick you do with the knee bent at Le madero asks so yesterday during my training I decided to do the round kick I want to learn how to combine the round kick and the uppercut to follow up the round kick with an uppercut would a bit of a strange technique to use it in my opinion whoo I think you'd be better served doing a lead up cut uppercuts off the lead arm and then you can come through with the round kick now this is technique that I like to do actually a corkscrew uppercut so you got your standard uppercut which is just coming straight up but the corkscrew uppercut it comes out a bit a bit further you twist up but as I can as I do it I step off the center line so I'm hitting my opponent but I'm stepping off this way and what I'm doing is I'm stepping across the line of his body and I'm opening up his body to a lovely round kick to the body or even a round hit to the head step across on the outside of his leg and throw that round kick into the midsection naturally you see Conor McGregor do this punch a lot the corkscrew uppercut he sort of jumps forward and to the side as he throws it and he gets closer to his opponent and he can hit them with her with one of his powerful left strikes at and Melissa Heist okay kickboxing question round kick to the head is it okay to make contact with the foot instead of the shin the shin gets me into damn close well I know what you're saying Melissa you don't want to be too down close if you can kick him in the head with the shin that's preferable to the foot because the shin is much harder and certainly if you're kicking to the body into the leg you don't want to catch them with your foot because what you can do is sometimes bends your foot back even break your foot and in some cases that happens a lot so if you can kick to the head and hit them with your shin that's going to be preferable to the foot but still the foot is going to do the job should you hit them hard enough and they don't see it coming at rim the human asks can you teach me how to properly drop kick and the answer is no because I'm stuck here on my chair with these it might be my ears I don't actually know what what you mean by drop kick perhaps you mean the axe kick really what you need for an axe kick is to be very flexible so that you can bring your leg all the way up and then of course you're going to contract your hamstrings when it gets to that height and bring your heel down on your opponent's head you need to be flexible it's very easy to pull your hamstring if you're not warmed up because as soon as you get to the height in your hamstring is fully strengths you're going to contract and you're gonna bring the heel down on the guy's head hopefully it's a good kick at Jameson F I'm contemplating starting at home kickboxing training any recommendations yes just then I recommend that you go to my youtube channel everyone was always asking me to do kicking tutorials so I recommend you go to the Scott Adkins official YouTube channel you will be able to learn some kicks from Scott Adkins himself what a plug what a plug the Graham 27 asks how do you split your week between martial arts training and lifting weights frankly I'd die I'm adding up there I think that's what he meant for a body like boy cos muscle mass and martial arts don't go hand in hand it can slow you down yes you'll be stronger you'll be more powerful but it's also a lot more weight to carry around and you'll probably gas out quicker obviously I make movies and people expect you to look a certain way the first time I played boy car I was opposite Michael Jai White is a big guy so I wanted to put on as much muscle mass as I could the way I'll split up the week is I will normally wait train on a Sunday and a Monday and then on a Tuesday I'll do my martial arts Wednesday and Thursday I'll do some more bodybuilding weight training and then on Friday I'll do martial arts and then I'm gonna have Saturday off that's typically how I split up the week four days of weight training and two days of martial arts but if I'm going to do a film there's more martial arts heavy or if I want to be a bit lighter on the feet I'll probably up the martial arts and cardio training and a bit less on the resistance trainer at yoga tomo this knee injury has slowed down my entire existence how did Boykin manage to 180 degrees spin into an extended knee block that caused the Columbian boot shin to snap in two I know you're coming from me listen I tore my ACL in my left knee it took me a good year to get back to normal actually I tore my ACL and then I had to do three films Universe soldier I did el gringo and then I did the Expendables - all with no ACL I don't know how I did it by the time I got to do Expendables 2 it was a winter in Bulgaria every morning I woke up in agonizing pain but I just had to get on with it and throw kicks at Jason Statham when I did get this surgery done I had to take at least nine months off of full contact and I had to rehab it as best as I could so if you've got knee problems made what it suggests is that you really need to build up the muscles around the knee that are going to hold that in place the stronger your leg is the stronger your knee is gonna be if you can build up to doing piston squats which is where you have one leg up in the air all your weights on on the bad knee and you can go all the way down to the bottom and push yourself all the way up to the top on one leg then you know that your knee is gonna be fixed yeah and boy can manage to do it I don't know just wanna graft at Tom con em ty Scott how did you build so much mass to blade Boyka but stay so agile did you train like a bodybuilder to gain mass actually yeah I did train like a bodybuilder to gain mass when I was first starting my weight training journey I had the Joe Weider encyclopedia which you know things have changed since then but I've still kept the those principles of bodybuilding really if you want to add muscle to your frame you need to be putting your muscles into progressive overloads you need to keep lifting heavier weight in order to put muscle on to your frame but you're right it was very difficult when I did the first Boyka movie and the reason I wanted to put the muscle mass on was because I'm the bad guy and Michael Jai White's the good guy and he was so much bigger than me I really wanted to put on as much muscle as possible because I just felt like it wasn't gonna be enough of a threat I wouldn't be able to intimidate him if I was as you know nor me so I put on as much muscle as I could over the course of six months yeah it was a lot of pressure on the joints obviously Boyka does a lot of fancy kicks he's very agile so if you're doing a back somersault and you're carrying around an extra six kilograms of muscle it certainly you feel it on the knees you feel it on the back you feel it everywhere it's a lot harder but back then I was 27 and I was a beast and somehow managed to keep all the kicks that I was doing and then up my game and learn some even crazy ones and still carry around that muscle mass but it's not easy and it's a young man's game okay so that's it thank you Twitter for all your questions and thank you wired for letting me give you some martial arts training support

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Length: 13min 35sec (815 seconds)

Published: Fri May 29 2020